Nonprofit Tells Appeals Court It Has a Religious Right To Operate Philadelphia Safe Drug Injection Site
It’s the latest in a years-long battle between the nonprofit, Safehouse, and the Department of Justice, which is expected to respond in October.

A Pennsylvania nonprofit, Safehouse, that’s seeking to open a supervised drug injection site at Philadelphia is telling a federal appeals court that opening the center — and thus doing “everything possible” to keep drug users alive even for “one more day” — is part of exercising its members’ “deeply held religious convictions.”
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